Why does Tony call Thor Point Break?

Why does Tony call Thor Point Break?

Point Break is the name Tony Stark gave Thor in the first Avengers film because of his resemblance to Patrick Swayze in the 1991 film, Point Break.

What did Point Break mean?

point break (plural point breaks) (surfing slang) The location where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline.

What Avenger is Point Break?

Back in the first Avengers, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) nicknamed Thor “Point Break,” in reference to the 1991 film of the same name starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves.

Why is Stark’s password Point Break?

Tony called Thor “Point Break” (a 1991 film starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves) in The Avengers, because his hair made him look like Patrick Swayze in that film. Tony Stark, being a snarky guy, probably thought it’d be funny to set random nicknames as passwords for at least some of the avengers.